p. 525 | The Case for National Prohibition

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 24, 1881

The Case for National Prohibition

In 1834 the members of Congress formed a temperance society, pledging its members to moderation. Wines and beer, and even brandy and water could be moderately used. After nine years the pledge was found to be only a feeder to intemperance, and was changed to total abstinence. The old society, as one of its members said, "died of intemperance, holding the pledge in one hand, and the champagne bottle in the other." For twenty-five years it has been a teetotal society, and it has accomplished an immense amount of good. It has need to add another plank to its platform now, and that is national prohibition.